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libertine continental's have nothing in terms of drug use and american piety hasn't prevented us from indulging. in fact it has sometimes encouraged it. much of the conventional wisdom about american drug use the puritans and members of the founding generation were teetotalers or mild drinkers the drug trade is dominated by criminal organizations such as mafia and bloods, that crack use declined significantly since the 80's turns out to be wrong, too. if there is one certainty about drug use its this we are always looking for a better way to feed our appetite for getting high, for something cheaper, faster, less addictive or more powerful, jog trends feed themselves as word spreads about the amazing new hyde is safe and non-addictive than we discovered otherwise and go searching for the next great heights. we often circle back to the original drug for getting why we quit in the first place. so, what happened to acid? that was -- i originally wrote about this and 2004 and i had a few theories but the purpose of the book was to go out and find out what happened to lsd. i came up with fo
libertine continental's have nothing in terms of drug use and american piety hasn't prevented us from indulging. in fact it has sometimes encouraged it. much of the conventional wisdom about american drug use the puritans and members of the founding generation were teetotalers or mild drinkers the drug trade is dominated by criminal organizations such as mafia and bloods, that crack use declined significantly since the 80's turns out to be wrong, too. if there is one certainty about drug use...
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>> in my book i don't use them. i don't describe them that way. i say this is a book about terrorism because that's the subject matter but i don't call them terrorists. basically the book is an argument that they're not. you're absolutely right that the definition of it and the use of it is widening. by all sorts of different means because the word allows them to do things. it's potent. it allows you to use extraordinary measures to catch people and put them in extraordinary jails and all this extra action you can bring to this and just because of the word. one of the things that i just wrote about recently in the "l.a. times" that these secretive prison units that are made for terrorists, the people in there -- some of them have been connected. john walker lind was connected with them. but a lot of them have very fuzzy connections to like making one phone call to a guy that was a known operative of somebody in pakistan, and then they got that person and they'd end up in this special unit for terrorists. pulling all those people in there and expan
>> in my book i don't use them. i don't describe them that way. i say this is a book about terrorism because that's the subject matter but i don't call them terrorists. basically the book is an argument that they're not. you're absolutely right that the definition of it and the use of it is widening. by all sorts of different means because the word allows them to do things. it's potent. it allows you to use extraordinary measures to catch people and put them in extraordinary jails and all...
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the more educated people now than there used to be. the indian land problems that have completely survived, i don't think there's any real fighting. but land distribution is still a serious proble i would say if the mexicans central government wanted to start their one thing, quit concentrating everything on mexico city. it's the biggest city in the world. 22 million people. is ridiculous but it's hagiographical, which he said he has a hard time putting out there but what about the other cities in mexico? some of these factors could be in there, that's for sure there's a tendency, this one on under the spanish. it went on under the aztecs. it went on before them. this was going to be the hub of the empire, and therefore everything would come in and serve it. like venice. but mexico city's industrial overhead and population could well be dispersed a little better, or be a lot more economical instead having every thing she attended a place. but that's as far as i'milling to fight anyway. [inaudible] >> does the government suppress educat
the more educated people now than there used to be. the indian land problems that have completely survived, i don't think there's any real fighting. but land distribution is still a serious proble i would say if the mexicans central government wanted to start their one thing, quit concentrating everything on mexico city. it's the biggest city in the world. 22 million people. is ridiculous but it's hagiographical, which he said he has a hard time putting out there but what about the other cities...
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on some level most of us understand this. is codify dinner myths sindh proverbs and africanisms and are classic novels and their great films. society and culture are tagging as the other way. we have a wonderful cabalistic system that provides as with everything we need but it also comes as. it is telling us what we could have, how we could look, how we will fill when we find the choir the latest, greatest and most fabulous get into the mention it is new and improved? so what i'm saying is modern economy does a wonderful job of meeting their needs but if we lose our way, fortunately the great spiritual principles are always there like fuller is suing us the way to north and it may not the glamorous but it is true and 150 years ago ralph waldo emerson and his famous essay on self-reliance with these words. can bring you peace but yourself. nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. so, to the extent that we have that we are living in principle centered life we tend to be satisfied with their lives. to the exten
on some level most of us understand this. is codify dinner myths sindh proverbs and africanisms and are classic novels and their great films. society and culture are tagging as the other way. we have a wonderful cabalistic system that provides as with everything we need but it also comes as. it is telling us what we could have, how we could look, how we will fill when we find the choir the latest, greatest and most fabulous get into the mention it is new and improved? so what i'm saying is...
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them to amend the books used ellen, how many have been recovered? >> the roll recover the day he was arrested. as with the chapter is about. it was quite remarkable about stephen blumberg which is what made him very interesting to me as a writer is a that not just that he stole the books. there have been a lot of but thieves and document the use and manuscript fees and matthew is an assembly very worth while to study and writing about, but was of particularly interest about stephen blumberg is that he stole the books to keep them because you love them. he built a collection of these 25,000 books and kept them in this house in ottumwa, iowa. he did this over 20 years. if the day he was arrested, 95 percent of the books that he had stolen were never known to be missing and of the day he was arrested so it became a very interesting story for me. it was to lead a study in bibliomania, an examination of a book collector who literally falls off the cliff and this is kind of where i read over here -- my reading chair. these are the books i am working with
them to amend the books used ellen, how many have been recovered? >> the roll recover the day he was arrested. as with the chapter is about. it was quite remarkable about stephen blumberg which is what made him very interesting to me as a writer is a that not just that he stole the books. there have been a lot of but thieves and document the use and manuscript fees and matthew is an assembly very worth while to study and writing about, but was of particularly interest about stephen...
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this is for both of us. >> g3h4jdtqi rñ senator mcgover you. i work for senator johnson but i'm going to give my book to my grandma wholÑy shares -- >> is this her name. >> i'm steve cohen, congressman from memphis. >> well, good to see you, steve. >> i look forward to reading your book. i'm going to take this on the plane to afghanistan this weekend. >> thank you. it's nicemk to meet you. i see references all the time. it'sy/v nice ó meet you. >> jerry austin worked with you and he managed my campaign in memphis. >> you live in memphis. >> it's an interesting city. >> lou's barbecue and elvis and >> didn't john grisham write a novel. >> several. i was in a couple of those movies. >> uh-huh. >> i was an extra. have you watched the nixon/frost -- >> did you watch nixon/frost, the movie. >> i thought it was really good. >> i thought it was excellent. $re so many parallels to bush and cheney. >> weren't there, though? >> the president does it, it's okay. the war. thank you, sir. in the long run, you're the winner. >> well, thank you. thank you.
this is for both of us. >> g3h4jdtqi rñ senator mcgover you. i work for senator johnson but i'm going to give my book to my grandma wholÑy shares -- >> is this her name. >> i'm steve cohen, congressman from memphis. >> well, good to see you, steve. >> i look forward to reading your book. i'm going to take this on the plane to afghanistan this weekend. >> thank you. it's nicemk to meet you. i see references all the time. it'sy/v nice ó meet you. >>...
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malaise which was never used in the speech and trying to then use it as a way to kind of attack ronald reagan -- jimmy carter. for the first time in our memory, many americans are asking does history still have a place for america for her people, and for her great ideals? this is reagan announcing his candidacy. there are some who answer no year that her energy is spent, her days of great is at an end, that a great national malaise is upon us. as i point out, those people who said no to dreaming, and dreaming becomes a theme that runs throughout ronald reagan throughout ronald reagan speeches from 79 up through a. those people who said no, reagan put up, told our children not to dream as we once dreamed. but i find no national malaise, he insisted. i find nothing wrong with the american people. jimmy carter carley found something wrong with the american people. and he clearly found that there was something wrong with himself. there was that kind of humility that carter held out both for citizens and for himself. ronald reagan had none of it. ronald reagan had no sense of the legs and n
malaise which was never used in the speech and trying to then use it as a way to kind of attack ronald reagan -- jimmy carter. for the first time in our memory, many americans are asking does history still have a place for america for her people, and for her great ideals? this is reagan announcing his candidacy. there are some who answer no year that her energy is spent, her days of great is at an end, that a great national malaise is upon us. as i point out, those people who said no to...
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quote, you are smarter than us, use the library, take care of your sister. and learn from what i've done wrg. end quote. on the lower east side and the west side of chicago, i grew up in a situation which i would not wish on anybody. my mother, i was born in little rock, arkansas, we migrated upsoutho michigan. my father left when i was quite young. and my sister had just been born. my mher, you see, was a very pretty women. yellow, black. all right? and my mothe was not an educated women. she could read and write, she could compute minor figures. my mother was brought into the sex trade at a very early age by black ministers. i'll neverorget this. we were trying to move to detroit and we moved
quote, you are smarter than us, use the library, take care of your sister. and learn from what i've done wrg. end quote. on the lower east side and the west side of chicago, i grew up in a situation which i would not wish on anybody. my mother, i was born in little rock, arkansas, we migrated upsoutho michigan. my father left when i was quite young. and my sister had just been born. my mher, you see, was a very pretty women. yellow, black. all right? and my mothe was not an educated women. she...
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you push us, we'll push back. christmas eve and the day before you go shopping, you get gifts, you have a big party. two cars full of ms gangsterred stopped the bus, they had an ak-47 and an m-16 or something and just start killing people. children, mothers, old men, the bus driver, the conductor, they were all killed. 26 people killed, 26 injured. the interesting afterstory to that case. nobody really knows where he is today. his name is annabell rivero presidents. -- potts. he escaped and came to the united states. he was arrested in texas. and he was a long-time gang member. he had a list of offenses. he was re-entering the united states after deportation. there were a lot of news stories about how this guy is going to get the -- the titanic is going to come down on him. the president of hon duh rats said we will get this guy. the deputy director said, we got him. the newspapers said he's going to be minimum of 10 years. then we'll send him back and let honduras deal with him. interesting happened. when his cas
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, i think a fast maturing of us are using food to self medicate. because when you're in this cycle, what happens? you have the thoughts of wanting, the thoughts that this will taste good. it captures your attention. and it occupies working memory, and when that happens, you're not thinking about all the other thoughts of the day. why do you eat at the end of the day? i mean, why do people eat at 10, 11:00 at night a few of you are shaking your heads. is to calm down. is to change, and essence, it is to regulate emotional level. and when you use it like that, that's because you are stimulating this reward pathway and doing it over and over again. comments about the intent of ink are especially important that there is a chapter in the book, and i put the chapter in the book it worked directly on the reward circuits. it is in essence, it is an amphetamine like compounds or it has been around for 30 years fenfluramine affects serotonin levels. understand that these drugs are affecting the circuits that make us human. i think as we have this evidence, t
, i think a fast maturing of us are using food to self medicate. because when you're in this cycle, what happens? you have the thoughts of wanting, the thoughts that this will taste good. it captures your attention. and it occupies working memory, and when that happens, you're not thinking about all the other thoughts of the day. why do you eat at the end of the day? i mean, why do people eat at 10, 11:00 at night a few of you are shaking your heads. is to calm down. is to change, and essence,...
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and we're all -- we're all trees, and some of us have more vines on us than others but you just -- you know, you slowly take down the vines and you get the vines all down, it's going to be one of the most beautiful things you've ever seen. >> what about love? >> well, i had a huge problem with women. >> well, i was actually talking about parental love to begin with. [laughter] >> we'll move on to that in a minute. >> okay. i think parental love is the most important thing you can give to your child, more than -- love comes first more than any other kind of technology, more than schooling. it's just the number one goal is to love your child. to love a person. and i think if you love your child, they will succeed. but you also have to listen to your child. obviously, you do need to tell them -- to tell them what to do at certain times you. need to help raise them but you also need to listen to them. >> you want to talk about girls? [laughter] >> since i brought that up, i had a huge problem with girls, you know, from my teenage years till now. everything i was doing -- girls would always
and we're all -- we're all trees, and some of us have more vines on us than others but you just -- you know, you slowly take down the vines and you get the vines all down, it's going to be one of the most beautiful things you've ever seen. >> what about love? >> well, i had a huge problem with women. >> well, i was actually talking about parental love to begin with. [laughter] >> we'll move on to that in a minute. >> okay. i think parental love is the most...
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they have ignored us. five years ago they started laughing at us. now they're going to spend $90 million this year lobbying congress to fight us. and then we're going to win. [applause] >> a lot of people ask me how i do this without getting depressed. and i just want to leave you with something, the best answer to that question comes from something wendell barry said when the army corps of engineers wanted to flood the red river gorge, and he wrote this. he said, a man cannot despair if he can imagine a better life and if he can enact something of its possibility. this is what we need to do. we need to imagine a better future for louisville and for the mountains, and then we need to work to enact it. thank you. [applause] >> silas house is a best-selling novelist. he teaches at lincoln memorial university in test. jason howard is the editor of, we all live downstream and has also written for equal justice magazine. for more information on the authors go to lmy.net.edu. flsh >> mr. yum greenbrier is the author. when you think of new york city in the
they have ignored us. five years ago they started laughing at us. now they're going to spend $90 million this year lobbying congress to fight us. and then we're going to win. [applause] >> a lot of people ask me how i do this without getting depressed. and i just want to leave you with something, the best answer to that question comes from something wendell barry said when the army corps of engineers wanted to flood the red river gorge, and he wrote this. he said, a man cannot despair if...
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we would like to thank you for joining us. this is divine, he is the president of the oracle grew, and he has worked diligently with me to posting here today, and we are just so happy to have you here. everyone here welcomes you. we thank you and we look forward to many more years of your greatness. [applause] >> ellen johnson-sirleaf became the president of liberia in 2006. previously served as that country's minister of finance and as an executive for citibank. she was awarded the presidential medal of freedom by george w. bush. the oracle group organized this discussion for their weekly interview program in the cafÉ with mocha. for more information, visit the oracle grew.net and click on the show tap. >> douglas brickley looks at the first green president >> next, a portion of the tv is a monthly three-hour live program in depth. on the first sunday of each month, we invite one offer to discuss their entire body of work and take your calls. in depth also includes a visit with the author to see where and how they write thei
we would like to thank you for joining us. this is divine, he is the president of the oracle grew, and he has worked diligently with me to posting here today, and we are just so happy to have you here. everyone here welcomes you. we thank you and we look forward to many more years of your greatness. [applause] >> ellen johnson-sirleaf became the president of liberia in 2006. previously served as that country's minister of finance and as an executive for citibank. she was awarded the...
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to serve us some ice tea and cookies. he and nancy were in the kitchen and i walk over to the bookcases in their library den and beg examining the titles. they were works
to serve us some ice tea and cookies. he and nancy were in the kitchen and i walk over to the bookcases in their library den and beg examining the titles. they were works
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it was noam who told us about what was happening in timor and lead us to take those trips to try to expose what was happening. i'll bet almost everyone here tonight in this sanctuary has this story about discovering noam's writings or his voice or his words and how it has changed your life. when i most affected as it traveled the country the young soldiers to come up to me and when i asked them what made the difference, why they turned, why they could be, how they could be so brave and courageous in resisting war, so often these young men and women will say, some one-handed me a book of noam chomsky. [applause] rn dowdey roy said something wonderful about noam in your book, wortock, who spoke here in may of 2003. she has a chapter, the loneliness of noam chomsky where she writes, when i first read noam chomsky it occurred to me that his marshaling of the evidence, the volume of it, the relentlessness of it was a little, how shall i put it, insane. even a quarter of the evidence he compiled would have been enough to convince me. i used to wonder why he needed to do so much work but now i
it was noam who told us about what was happening in timor and lead us to take those trips to try to expose what was happening. i'll bet almost everyone here tonight in this sanctuary has this story about discovering noam's writings or his voice or his words and how it has changed your life. when i most affected as it traveled the country the young soldiers to come up to me and when i asked them what made the difference, why they turned, why they could be, how they could be so brave and...
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that constantly use the word adapt. the ultimate irony is what our democracy needs and what our economy needs is critically thinking questioning and creative people but don't think that notion and the idea informs the way we think about we expect our students to do or achieve. until we can can a bridge that e will not reach you their goal of preparing workers or $0.07 that we need. thank you [applause] >> joseph lowndes in your new book "from the new deal to the new right" you argue modern conservatism was founded in the south. why? >>guest: i make that claim because people talk about a southern strategy and they capture of the south by the g.o.p. in the '60s beginning with goldwater and the nixon at 72 election but in some ways it is reverse seveners played a key role in development as they capture the republican party itself and then republican ascendance a nationally. there are certain ways a combination of segregationist politics and northern conservatism was blended over time by a very political actors and a wave o
that constantly use the word adapt. the ultimate irony is what our democracy needs and what our economy needs is critically thinking questioning and creative people but don't think that notion and the idea informs the way we think about we expect our students to do or achieve. until we can can a bridge that e will not reach you their goal of preparing workers or $0.07 that we need. thank you [applause] >> joseph lowndes in your new book "from the new deal to the new right" you...
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we, meaning all of us. how are we going to shake financial system? it is tempting to say let's try to shut all innovation out, like people say when one drug goes wrong, let's try an entire product. if we are going to do that, we will face a world where the banking system operates on a much lower capacity, credit is much more rationed. the question i will leave you with is an this story that j. p. morgan wrote, of credit innovation, which innovations can we actually preserve and which parts do we throw out? is there a way that we can actually take the original ideas about financial innovation that we developed in the 1990s and keep them for good? or is it a case for all complex financing, looking back at the story of real life human beings and how they tried to develop those human beings, away of showing it doesn't have to be like this, so i hope for the future it will provide a pointer of not just a terrible mistake that the banking industry made but perhaps some way is to control the effect going forward. thank you. i will take any questions. >> the
we, meaning all of us. how are we going to shake financial system? it is tempting to say let's try to shut all innovation out, like people say when one drug goes wrong, let's try an entire product. if we are going to do that, we will face a world where the banking system operates on a much lower capacity, credit is much more rationed. the question i will leave you with is an this story that j. p. morgan wrote, of credit innovation, which innovations can we actually preserve and which parts do...
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it gives us hope that we're building. the plan that they have been talking about is coming into play. and we came and stayed for the meeting but wen joyed it. >> it gave me goose bumps a need thing to see the agent got a hand. that surprised me but he did. it was a nice string. strasburg? i was most impressed with his attitude. >> he loves baseball and that came through i think this add as new level of excitement. i'm excited. and there is a guy lost for words. >> yes, yes. he may be the next one. it is you know what time it is. the hold of the day brought to you by just for men hair color. since the break leaders. jason berg berg and sean burnett with a couple. and as they kept them in the game you can stay in the game with just for men hair color. next, visit with hon dough, mr. baseball for all these years. that's when we come back in a minute. now at chili's -- start your three-course meals with a shared appetizer. choose two entrees from over 15 chili's favorites, then share a decadent dessert. chili's -- >>> one
it gives us hope that we're building. the plan that they have been talking about is coming into play. and we came and stayed for the meeting but wen joyed it. >> it gave me goose bumps a need thing to see the agent got a hand. that surprised me but he did. it was a nice string. strasburg? i was most impressed with his attitude. >> he loves baseball and that came through i think this add as new level of excitement. i'm excited. and there is a guy lost for words. >> yes, yes. he...
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thanks so much for joining us. vey great night in charlotte. s may be tough t but the things we all look forward to haven't changed have a great night charlotte. owning a home. watching our children grow. and retiring with confidence. so whatever you're looking forward to m&t bank is here to help you get there. m&t bank. understanding what's important. pnc. leading the way. >> gary: back here at camden yards a rain delayed game. then a rain drain delay. the drains were not working that took extra time. we to to the bottom of the 8th. >> buck: what a big pinch hit for carroll knocked in a run ad another thrown out at the plate. 21st r.b.i. for carroll examining it to 5- 3. and a 12 hit game. on the mound is sipp. starts here with izturis. and has a single. bullpen is going to get a lot of use. that's in the dirt. raining again 16789 ball, 1 strike count. indians had ten or more hits in 11 of the last 14 games. second half after the all-star break was produced. the pitch. 2-1. >> buck: i think the competition has pus
thanks so much for joining us. vey great night in charlotte. s may be tough t but the things we all look forward to haven't changed have a great night charlotte. owning a home. watching our children grow. and retiring with confidence. so whatever you're looking forward to m&t bank is here to help you get there. m&t bank. understanding what's important. pnc. leading the way. >> gary: back here at camden yards a rain delayed game. then a rain drain delay. the drains were not working...
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the local blacks tell us that you can free that child. and it would be a great service to us if you would go over and free this child from the recalcitrant slave owner who won't return him to his parents and liberate him. newtonite gets the child back. he goes over and frees the child, returns him to his parents. local blacks told union officers newtonite this is man who can help us. he carries out orders from officers to carry food to destitute citizens in all the surrounding counties. by the end of the war he's very much rewarded as the man to see. if you're in any sort of trouble in jones county. so he was not only a patriot but he was -- to this day he's regarded as a man who helped the destitute. he's viewed very quietly by some families in the area as a real hero and as a gentle soul in addition to being a fear some one. he was a lethal combatant. before the war, the fiercest backwoods fighter in the neighborhood and during the war, he and his men came up with this technique where they would actually overload their shotguns with mor
the local blacks tell us that you can free that child. and it would be a great service to us if you would go over and free this child from the recalcitrant slave owner who won't return him to his parents and liberate him. newtonite gets the child back. he goes over and frees the child, returns him to his parents. local blacks told union officers newtonite this is man who can help us. he carries out orders from officers to carry food to destitute citizens in all the surrounding counties. by the...
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the good news is that leadership change is going to come from us, those of us here the grassroots level. nothing is going to change until people at the grassroots level assumed the role of leadership does not start with the governor, or a senator of an organization. it starts with each and every one of us. >> i am going to have to the bar after hearing that one. >> i am getting to the good stuff. >> tom. >> thank you. can you hear me? i would like to endorse would richard said. in fact, for three years of my life i endorsed everything there richard said because i was working for him, and richard with that wonderful boss and a great teacher and i learned more about business and politics from him than anyone else, so let me again thank you for what you have done for the movement but also thank you on a personal basis. i do endorse with richard says. one of the things we are all familiar with is there is a difference between being conservative than being republican. those people who put the word republican first unfortunately often sacrifice the conservative part and don't stand for anythi
the good news is that leadership change is going to come from us, those of us here the grassroots level. nothing is going to change until people at the grassroots level assumed the role of leadership does not start with the governor, or a senator of an organization. it starts with each and every one of us. >> i am going to have to the bar after hearing that one. >> i am getting to the good stuff. >> tom. >> thank you. can you hear me? i would like to endorse would...
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now i use that vision of culture and describe it using modern computer term following as a kind of read-write culture. it's a culture where people read, consume, but they also feel empowered, entitled to write, to create in response to what they consume and i contrasted that vision of culture to the opposite in computer terminology, what we could call a read only culture, a culture where what people do is just simply consume. where they don't feel entitled or empowered to take what they consume and do anything with it. they feel like their job is to be a couch potato, to sit there and just see or listen and do nothing more. and sousa's fear was that's who we would become. now, of course, he was right, that's who we did become, the history of the 20th century is extraordinary history of concentration of the creativity of our culture, and never before in the history of human culture had its production become has concentrated, never bore before as professionalized, never before had the participation of ordinary people in the creation and spreading of culture been as effectively displace and disp
now i use that vision of culture and describe it using modern computer term following as a kind of read-write culture. it's a culture where people read, consume, but they also feel empowered, entitled to write, to create in response to what they consume and i contrasted that vision of culture to the opposite in computer terminology, what we could call a read only culture, a culture where what people do is just simply consume. where they don't feel entitled or empowered to take what they consume...
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most of us have preconceived notion of what the taliban are like. we think of them as guys who are in desperate need of a pedicure or at least a bath, living in caves in afghanistan. we think of them as illiterate, fanatical, gun-toting, basically backwards and illiterate people. what i would look -- like to put forward to you tonight who have come out to hear me speak, i would like to look forward to another model that i think is useful. i am not suggesting that malo mark has developed a taste for the issue no or that osama bin laden has started drinking qian the or that they are about to open a new wing of the bottom being, but what i have done over the last five years is to investigate the taliban's operations on ground level. when you start doing that, they start looking more like this. this has to do with the way that they earn money. one of the mistakes the western governments have made in operations in afghanistan is to underestimate them as religious fanatics who live in caves. we need to start looking at the enormous economic forces that ar
most of us have preconceived notion of what the taliban are like. we think of them as guys who are in desperate need of a pedicure or at least a bath, living in caves in afghanistan. we think of them as illiterate, fanatical, gun-toting, basically backwards and illiterate people. what i would look -- like to put forward to you tonight who have come out to hear me speak, i would like to look forward to another model that i think is useful. i am not suggesting that malo mark has developed a taste...
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write us is story because i used to love to scribble and write things. and i really honestly thought, oh, that's going to be simple. i can just write a small thing like an asop's fable or something very short. and i thought no this is my stepdaughter and it might be a wonderful way to help us bond. and i came up with a little idea and kind of kept fleshing it out and if it wasn't for my husband, blake edwards, i don't think i would have ever finished it. i didn't have confidence and i didn't know what i was doing. julie, it's a sweet idea -- >> and you've been hooked ever since. >> and that was 40 years ago, just about. so i've been writing ever since. >> and so how many children's books have you authored? >> emma, we've done 17 together. >> and then you've done four on your own. >> four on my own. plus a memoir. so we go back and forth really and we have more coming -- >> emma walton hamilton, do you live close to each other, do you email each other? >> unfortunately, we live most of the year on opposite coasts. we always work best when we're together a
write us is story because i used to love to scribble and write things. and i really honestly thought, oh, that's going to be simple. i can just write a small thing like an asop's fable or something very short. and i thought no this is my stepdaughter and it might be a wonderful way to help us bond. and i came up with a little idea and kind of kept fleshing it out and if it wasn't for my husband, blake edwards, i don't think i would have ever finished it. i didn't have confidence and i didn't...
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we'd already had the what if a war looming over us for months. had i expected him to be more emotional as deployment drew nig. the night he got his orders i shoveled around the kitchen baking chocolate chip cookies until 2:00 am. i sealed them in a plastic ziploc bags. when he found them in the counter he came in the bedroom with tears in his eyes. he moaned i don't want to see any more dead people. he had only told me once about the hundreds and burned of mangled corpses he'd seen as a platoon leader during the gulf war. at the end of the exhausting 100-ground war mike's unit was making its final drive east when it ran directly across the highway of death. the iraqis fleeing kuwait city had jammed highway 80 as they tried to get back to safety. mike and his soldiers arrived upon the scene just four hours after the road was attacked by sorties of coalition aircraft. vehicles were smoking, some licked by orange flame. the orange stank of burning fuel and flesh. he described the sight there were prayer rugs, televisions, candles, silver war, women'
we'd already had the what if a war looming over us for months. had i expected him to be more emotional as deployment drew nig. the night he got his orders i shoveled around the kitchen baking chocolate chip cookies until 2:00 am. i sealed them in a plastic ziploc bags. when he found them in the counter he came in the bedroom with tears in his eyes. he moaned i don't want to see any more dead people. he had only told me once about the hundreds and burned of mangled corpses he'd seen as a platoon...
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all of us... as human beings, we are have clear about what it means to read other human beings and figure out what we have to do to get people to do what we want. and, if wt our children come to want is access to the market economy in terms o the workplace, part of what they need is opportunities to experience it. our young people he very few opportunities for mentorship, internships, for example in workplac settings, very little opportunity to come to college campuses before they are seniors in high school, and northwestern university, we have something called "the center for talent development" and you have to be tested to be quote-unquote gifted to enter this little program in the suer, and they have kids from 4th or 5th gra up through high school and once the summer hi, the campus is replete with young people. and, hundreds of young people that are on there, you can counted on one hand how many african-american or latino students that you ever see i that program, but@ the kids who are in that
all of us... as human beings, we are have clear about what it means to read other human beings and figure out what we have to do to get people to do what we want. and, if wt our children come to want is access to the market economy in terms o the workplace, part of what they need is opportunities to experience it. our young people he very few opportunities for mentorship, internships, for example in workplac settings, very little opportunity to come to college campuses before they are seniors...
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this one guy took us through. one of the questions we asked was what about your trial, what about your people, were they guilty? the rosenbergs, were they guilty? and the guys said he was and she wasn't. i thought that was rather interesting that he said anything at all. i was wondering whether you made any effort to get opinions from that country. >> great question. you helped me. one of your friends was working for john kerry. >> oh, yes. >> i lived in massachusetts, i am a red sox fan. old brooklyn dodgers fan just like my parents, yankee-hater which is why i was married in boston. ivy meeropol has me on the film angrily watching -- >> a moment of levity. >> we went to senator john kerry and asked that the files of the soviet secret service whenever they were called, this was after the soviet union had dissolved, it was now the russian federation and we had john kerry send a letter, we actually thought we might be able to do it because the general had done something similar in another case, he examine their fil
this one guy took us through. one of the questions we asked was what about your trial, what about your people, were they guilty? the rosenbergs, were they guilty? and the guys said he was and she wasn't. i thought that was rather interesting that he said anything at all. i was wondering whether you made any effort to get opinions from that country. >> great question. you helped me. one of your friends was working for john kerry. >> oh, yes. >> i lived in massachusetts, i am a...
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we already had the what if a war looming over us for months. had i expected him to be more emotional as deployment drew nye? i don't know. he only lost his cool twice. the night he got his orders i shuffled around the kitchen in insome any yak haze baking chocolate cookies until 2:00 a.m. i zealed cookies in a plastic bag and dad he willed love notes. when he found them on the counter in the morning came into the bedroom in his uniform with tears in his eyes. days i found him sitting on side of the bed, shoulders slummed. i don't want to see anymore dead people. he only told me once about the hundreds of burned and mangled corpses he had seen in the platoon leader in the gulf war. at end of exhausting 100 hour grand war mike's unit was making its final drive northeast when it went directly across the way of death. iraqis fleeing cue city jammed highway 80 trying to get back to. mike and his soldiers arrived on the scene four hours after the road was attacked by sorties of coalition aircraft. vehicles were still smoking. still licked by orange f
we already had the what if a war looming over us for months. had i expected him to be more emotional as deployment drew nye? i don't know. he only lost his cool twice. the night he got his orders i shuffled around the kitchen in insome any yak haze baking chocolate cookies until 2:00 a.m. i zealed cookies in a plastic bag and dad he willed love notes. when he found them on the counter in the morning came into the bedroom in his uniform with tears in his eyes. days i found him sitting on side of...
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we're doing this for the rest of us. [applause] >> thank you veryuch. >> i did see you on c-spa initially when you fir wrote thisnd enjoy that interview. thank you so much can i think he. i really appreciate that. [applause] the no, it haseen the toughest me of my life and i had t do this but it is really not about me. i do appreciate that but it is about tt little boy over there and about his dad and the other soldiers and i feel like on use me as a vehicle to tell the story so im proud to do it. [applause] >> anyone else coming to mind? >> my name is cheryl and i am a teacher in philadelphia. one of the things, it is not necessarily a comment but i thank you for your courage, i thank you for your willingness because it takes courage to revisit pain but we also know that pain is healing so you can really experience the healing but what i also want to thank you for is telling this story about men. i do a lot of work with males in philadelphia particularly between the ages of 13 in 18 so it helps and i will be using excer
we're doing this for the rest of us. [applause] >> thank you veryuch. >> i did see you on c-spa initially when you fir wrote thisnd enjoy that interview. thank you so much can i think he. i really appreciate that. [applause] the no, it haseen the toughest me of my life and i had t do this but it is really not about me. i do appreciate that but it is about tt little boy over there and about his dad and the other soldiers and i feel like on use me as a vehicle to tell the story so im...
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i thank him for joining us. editor lauren doctorow had the good sense to be born in new york and live in the bronx. what more can i say? [laughter] >> second generation american. his father was a fan of edgar allan poe. i assume that is what that is where the edgar comes from? mac you are speaking of my youth? >> right. >> it was pretty wild. i read all the time. and we had a lot of music in the family. my mother was a pianist. and my father was proprietor of a music shop. he kept it going through the depression, and finally lost it in the 1940s. but there was always a lot of books in the house, a lot of music and no money. and they were readers, my parents. am i speaking to the point here? >> yes. >> and then i found out i was named after a ground po. there is always an injunction when children are given names and poe, my father loved his work. actually eat like a lot of bad writers. [laughter] >> but poe is our greatest bad writer so i take some solution there. he died many years ago. my mother lived into her
i thank him for joining us. editor lauren doctorow had the good sense to be born in new york and live in the bronx. what more can i say? [laughter] >> second generation american. his father was a fan of edgar allan poe. i assume that is what that is where the edgar comes from? mac you are speaking of my youth? >> right. >> it was pretty wild. i read all the time. and we had a lot of music in the family. my mother was a pianist. and my father was proprietor of a music shop. he...
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and he got us the final by this morning. so, he, you know, we need -- and he read it himself and he's book produce, audio book producer and now, the digital downloadable audio will be available by any of the people who sell, distribute those sorts 0 things. >> will it also be available on kindle. >> it will be available as an e-book on every format that. >> guest: that includes kindle and sony reader and includes everybody who jumped in and said, we want to offer the book as an e-book and for many of them, i believe they -- they'd be able to buy the e-book today. >> susan weinberg, a publishing question, how important are e-books to your business. >> i think they are very important because they represent growth and innovation and a way to continue reading in yet another form and format. and everyone, the e-books now are a small percentage of people's overall business, but the potential for e-books and how they add to the choices readers have, about when and how they want to read a book i think is very significant for us. i a
and he got us the final by this morning. so, he, you know, we need -- and he read it himself and he's book produce, audio book producer and now, the digital downloadable audio will be available by any of the people who sell, distribute those sorts 0 things. >> will it also be available on kindle. >> it will be available as an e-book on every format that. >> guest: that includes kindle and sony reader and includes everybody who jumped in and said, we want to offer the book as...
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they used to have, bajis said go. now, they ask about your family, they try to do things to accommodate you and you don't get demoted if you refuse a move. very often people there, ups will tell you, you fell right off the chain of corporate advancement if you refuse to move. ups says they don't do that anymore and i think that is true. >> thank you. >> yes, hi. >> hi peter and my congratulations to all the rest. i wonder what happens to these people perhaps in the statistics sense after they are done with their moving it around. have they developed habits that don't allow them to settle them down? what do they do with their lives and where do they end up? beith i told you about the so we's and a even say that this is our less home until the home. i guess, where they end up is, they will find a place to end up and it is often near their kids. if it doesn't mean collateral locations where they have got near the kids and then relocated or their kids have gone to settle down somewhere and they tried to move to some place
they used to have, bajis said go. now, they ask about your family, they try to do things to accommodate you and you don't get demoted if you refuse a move. very often people there, ups will tell you, you fell right off the chain of corporate advancement if you refuse to move. ups says they don't do that anymore and i think that is true. >> thank you. >> yes, hi. >> hi peter and my congratulations to all the rest. i wonder what happens to these people perhaps in the statistics...
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today geologists tend to use plastic bags, ziploc bags we use for leftovers. but they work perfectly well and they're cheap. no plastics in those days so they used paper. here's another example of a rock specimen, 1079 with a labor quartz rock of falkans rock and he collected some black volume c can -- volumic sand and these bottles were a nice container and food and geology had some collection even back then. now, as far as interpreting what he was doing, he had the disciplinary training from his years -- for his months really with henslow and sedgwick. and what geologists were trying to do at that time was to trace formations worldwide. they wanted to see if the same series of formations that they saw in britain and in europe were also the case around the world. so people going on circumnavigations as darwin was was very useful to geologists. he collected a lot of fossils with the intent of carrying those with those characteristic of british strata. now, as i mentioned, geology was and is a very geological science and here's a map that went out on the beagle
today geologists tend to use plastic bags, ziploc bags we use for leftovers. but they work perfectly well and they're cheap. no plastics in those days so they used paper. here's another example of a rock specimen, 1079 with a labor quartz rock of falkans rock and he collected some black volume c can -- volumic sand and these bottles were a nice container and food and geology had some collection even back then. now, as far as interpreting what he was doing, he had the disciplinary training from...
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and join us for the q & a afterwards. so please join me in welcoming to the podium, john roberts. >> just a little bit over 50 years ago, a very enigmatc monk sailed into the harbor of new york to settle into the saw it's. i decided to start this morning talking about him, because he turned out to be the living human bridge in a changing political movement to maintain tibet's freedom that began as a cold war operation in the 1950's under president truman, and continued to become a counterculture cause up till today, where it's a mass global movement. and that transformation of a political movement to maintain freedom for an occupied country is really a kind of profound thing. the monk was a colmic mongolian. they shared tibetan buddhism going back 50 years with the dalai lama and the tibetan theocracy. he never would have come to the united states if it weren't for world war ii. at the end of world war ii, there were many displaced people in the soviet union including in mongolia and a coup of calmics decided they would s
and join us for the q & a afterwards. so please join me in welcoming to the podium, john roberts. >> just a little bit over 50 years ago, a very enigmatc monk sailed into the harbor of new york to settle into the saw it's. i decided to start this morning talking about him, because he turned out to be the living human bridge in a changing political movement to maintain tibet's freedom that began as a cold war operation in the 1950's under president truman, and continued to become a...
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hayward used his wealthy friends to buy uniforms. they were porters and elevator operators and architects and lawyers, fighting more for an america they believed was possible than for the one they knew. black soldiers had served before in the civil war, but they had been assigned mainly to fight nonwhite enemies. they fought against mexicans. the war department was not in favor of arming black men and training them to kill white men. the first time black citizens were drafted. this is -- there had been trouble with training black troops stationed near white troupes, hostilities surfaced. there had been a riot in houston, texas, in 1917. colonel hayward, that's him on the left --'s a publicist. he was trying to get his men as much attention and acclaim as he could. he wanted permission to march in the rainbow commission, crisis of men from all different states. he was told the men of 15th 15th national guard would not march because black was not a color of the rainbow. he made his men a solemn promise that some day they would have the
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they have ignored us. five years ago they started laughing at us. now they're going to spend $90 million lobbying congress to fight us. and then we're going to win. a lot of people ask me how i'd do this without getting depressed. i just want to leave you with something, the best answer to that question comes from something wendell berry said 42 years ago when he was riding in defense of the red river gorge, when the army corps of engineers wanted to flood the red river gorge. he wrote a book about it and as part of stopping that flooding of the court. this is what he read. he said a man cannot this bear if he can imagine a better life and if he can enact something of its possibility. this is what we need to do. we need to imagine a better future for the seville and for the mountains. then we need to work to enact it. thank you. [applauding] >> silas house is a best-selling novelist whose work has been published. he teaches at the lincoln memorial university. jason howard is the editor of we all live downstream. he has also written for equal justice
they have ignored us. five years ago they started laughing at us. now they're going to spend $90 million lobbying congress to fight us. and then we're going to win. a lot of people ask me how i'd do this without getting depressed. i just want to leave you with something, the best answer to that question comes from something wendell berry said 42 years ago when he was riding in defense of the red river gorge, when the army corps of engineers wanted to flood the red river gorge. he wrote a book...
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use that. that's part of, you know, working together longer and understanding the risk/reward. if this scenario happened the first race, we would have pitted. we wouldn't have done that. but because we've learned each other a little more, we understand the risk tolerances and maybe what our options are, it opened up the option to take advantage of that. it's just part of really running together. i know it sounds silly, you got to have that chemistry or whatever. but you gotta have that. you gotta have that. what we did before, how it happened. it's really a combination of everybody pulling together to make that call. >> for brian, you've won a race before, but does winning a race and getting the first win for an organization that helped from the ground up, does it feel any different? and all, does this make the season successful or do you need to make the chase to consider this season a success? >> i mean, winning a race in this sport, with the level of competition, is always pretty special. yo
use that. that's part of, you know, working together longer and understanding the risk/reward. if this scenario happened the first race, we would have pitted. we wouldn't have done that. but because we've learned each other a little more, we understand the risk tolerances and maybe what our options are, it opened up the option to take advantage of that. it's just part of really running together. i know it sounds silly, you got to have that chemistry or whatever. but you gotta have that. you...
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it is dangerous for us. keep out, but poland in the same time we say have for you, half for me so i think it was quite stalin, yes. >> but did roosevelt think he would gain by helping stalin with his war? >> what did president roosevelt think he would gain by helping stalin prepare? >> i got that. please, believe me that question you don't need to ask small russian spy. there is enough who know the answer for that question better than me once i had been in poland and always there is a situation suddenly there is a young man and he starts to ask a question and he asked a question for one minute, two minutes, five minutes, and he is speaking more and more and more and i just don't know what to do because i don't know what he is speaking about and he is speaking about some polish problem. he says i don't know what it is and he is speaking and speaking and people started laughing so there is a television camera in the room and i say what to do, what to do and suddenly when he finished high no answer. you always
it is dangerous for us. keep out, but poland in the same time we say have for you, half for me so i think it was quite stalin, yes. >> but did roosevelt think he would gain by helping stalin with his war? >> what did president roosevelt think he would gain by helping stalin prepare? >> i got that. please, believe me that question you don't need to ask small russian spy. there is enough who know the answer for that question better than me once i had been in poland and always...
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thank you so much for being with us today. .. >> i guess i thought i would talk or a bid to while some they also like to do we have a small group feel free to fill in but how many of you watch cnbc? many if you are cnbc viewers we may have a pretty educated viewership so i am curious five like to do this in small groups or large groups how many of you think the economy has seen its worst days and will improve? okay. how many of you think we will see economic growth in 2010 not adjusted gdp being flat but actual growth? not too optimistic. we are in new york how many of you think we're in for a very tough time or we have seen the worst of it? do things we have seen the worst of it? okay. finally, how many of you think this shows her israel? [laughter] nobody? nobody? i will tell you at the end you have to stay. i wrote the book is still wearing hour documentary house of cards three spent over one year on that it was late 2007 a lot of people who i had been speaking to i began as a banking reporter in 2007 as you get older so do your sources and then move up in institutions where they wo
thank you so much for being with us today. .. >> i guess i thought i would talk or a bid to while some they also like to do we have a small group feel free to fill in but how many of you watch cnbc? many if you are cnbc viewers we may have a pretty educated viewership so i am curious five like to do this in small groups or large groups how many of you think the economy has seen its worst days and will improve? okay. how many of you think we will see economic growth in 2010 not adjusted...
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>> it was used against, it was used against pretty much anyone it was challenging the status quo. it was used against striking workers. eight was used against african-americans and started to migrate from the brill south to the north and it was effective in marginalizing and silencing them. >> christopher capozzola, world war i and the making of the modern american citizen-- "uncle sam wants you" world war i and the making of the modern american citizen. >> thank you. >> look at the life and career of an arkansas circuit court judge who once opposed the ruling of brown the mac board of education and then champion civil-rights. judge richard arnold has been called the best judge to never set on the supreme court. the bill clinton presidential library in lula, arkansas is the hosted this event. it is about an
>> it was used against, it was used against pretty much anyone it was challenging the status quo. it was used against striking workers. eight was used against african-americans and started to migrate from the brill south to the north and it was effective in marginalizing and silencing them. >> christopher capozzola, world war i and the making of the modern american citizen-- "uncle sam wants you" world war i and the making of the modern american citizen. >> thank...
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use barack as the model. because in the end only -- i taught emerson at my graduate seminar and he gave a speech and he called the emancipation westerners. ideas only save races. in the end, black people to have save themselves and the same thing is true of women. it's very interesting. he throws down the gauntlet in effect for frederick douglass and in a year later he writes this great paper. you have to show that you are equally to all the other races. this is not me. this is emerson and i think that we have to impress upon all the members of the black community that barack obama -- nobody did him a favor, you know? he's not the affirmative action candidate. he shocked everybody, especially me. i didn't think he was going to beat hillary, a, let alone the american people. i didn't believe the american people were ready to elect a black man and and i was wrong. it's not about barack. it's my age with a certain level of skepticism and sin -- cynicism. and unless you step up to the plate, you're going to be cr
use barack as the model. because in the end only -- i taught emerson at my graduate seminar and he gave a speech and he called the emancipation westerners. ideas only save races. in the end, black people to have save themselves and the same thing is true of women. it's very interesting. he throws down the gauntlet in effect for frederick douglass and in a year later he writes this great paper. you have to show that you are equally to all the other races. this is not me. this is emerson and i...
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and so, you know, he sort of used that government apparatus to repress all suppression and use -- sorry, to repress all critics and use the war as an excuse. and then there was sort of the double shock because while the war unfolded, though it wasn't for very long, cairo radio which was listened to by everyone across the region was proclaiming these huge victories, and suddenly six days later, bang, the arab armies were decimated, the golan heights was gone, east jerusalem was gone, so it was kind of like a shock to the arab body politic. and from that they started questioning, how could this happen, you know, how could we be so week? and a group of people said, well, it's because we've gotten so far away from islam, and if we return to islamic values, then we will start reasserting ourselves. that was the the start of the seed, and from there it grew. and general political repression, mosques are the one area where people are allowed to operate and say what they want. there's obviously, you know, parables in the koran that have political content, and so if you talk about overthrowing t
and so, you know, he sort of used that government apparatus to repress all suppression and use -- sorry, to repress all critics and use the war as an excuse. and then there was sort of the double shock because while the war unfolded, though it wasn't for very long, cairo radio which was listened to by everyone across the region was proclaiming these huge victories, and suddenly six days later, bang, the arab armies were decimated, the golan heights was gone, east jerusalem was gone, so it was...
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itself during this crisis, not only because it failed to see it coming, not only because they told us this is the most robust economy anybody has seen, they said that in 2007, but also because the solutions, so called solutions they propose are utterly juvenile and extremely crude, and this is all they have to show for themselves. now the mainstream of the economics profession has in effect morphed from what was once a small corner of the profession namely a group of people who felt that the best thing for economics to do was a physics, so i think a lot of times and economics we have former or would be physicists who for whatever reason couldn't get through a physics problems of the next best thing is to become an economist and try to aid the methods of the physical sciences and so you come up with a certain models that apply only to an economy on mars or a equilibrium we are never going to reach but never actually talk about the actual economy we are living in and so if you actually read the american economic review you will find this completely unreadable. it is all math, jargon and
itself during this crisis, not only because it failed to see it coming, not only because they told us this is the most robust economy anybody has seen, they said that in 2007, but also because the solutions, so called solutions they propose are utterly juvenile and extremely crude, and this is all they have to show for themselves. now the mainstream of the economics profession has in effect morphed from what was once a small corner of the profession namely a group of people who felt that the...
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a lot of it goes back to my materials i was able to use old projects in notes and i had used on various other things. >> [inaudible] >> i picked up spanish gradually but then you get better at it. my speaking is not bad it is better than the french and i started from scratch with at. franchise can handle as long as i have a dictionary but i cannot understand it when it is spoken it is strictly a written language. spanish is getting better because i am trying harder. i can as the question and get an answer. anybody else? >> what group reached treated back? >> the insurgents. the indians and the spanish, the mixed-race. >> [inaudible] >> yes. the church that was shot up the ruins are still there and if you look carefully you can see yes. not small bullet holes have eroded away but the gun shop. -- shot. >> you're pretty hard on the amerian leadership with their ambition. yo had to re quarter the capability of taylor and scott. what would be your response to that? one of the interesting political dynamics that existed. >> some reviewers point* out that my account except for the beautiful f
a lot of it goes back to my materials i was able to use old projects in notes and i had used on various other things. >> [inaudible] >> i picked up spanish gradually but then you get better at it. my speaking is not bad it is better than the french and i started from scratch with at. franchise can handle as long as i have a dictionary but i cannot understand it when it is spoken it is strictly a written language. spanish is getting better because i am trying harder. i can as the...
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it wasn'tust us. it was high-level risk-takaries in the bank,eople that knew, thoroughly understand credit derivatives and in her words what warren buffet calls financial weapons of ms destruction. he had experts in these areas, and they were not being consulted. we had brilliant, brilliant financial talent that was not being consulted because those men upstairs, like i said, dn't want to be exposed for all they didn't underand. and then through 2006, 2007, we started to see people stand up. brave people. courageous people started to stand up. i will never forget, jim fix in 2005. michael gelband were in a meeting with the traders and risk-takers and research analysts and he started to do something which is very unusual. most people on wall street are very politically correct and also very financially correct in terms of not wanting to upset the people on the 31st floor, and michael gelband -- i never forget how he started to question these evil financial products in the system, these evil mortgages,
it wasn'tust us. it was high-level risk-takaries in the bank,eople that knew, thoroughly understand credit derivatives and in her words what warren buffet calls financial weapons of ms destruction. he had experts in these areas, and they were not being consulted. we had brilliant, brilliant financial talent that was not being consulted because those men upstairs, like i said, dn't want to be exposed for all they didn't underand. and then through 2006, 2007, we started to see people stand up....
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and i used to argue with the nurses. i used to say why do we do it in a different way. why don't we take it slower, take two hours but don't have this real terrible tearing. i didn't say this calm way of course. [laughter] >> i would try to convince them to do this, and the nurses told me to think. they told the first of all, that they were right. that they had the right model of the patient if they knew what would cause me less pain. and the second thing they told is the word patient doesn't mean intervened like suggestions. [laughter] >> this was in israel but it turns out it is in every language i have known since then. [laughter] >> so i didn't keep exactly quiet but the nurses kept on doing what they thought was the right thing to do for the next three years. when i got out of the hospital, i learned about the experimental method one of the most interesting lessons in college was that sometimes if you have a question you can create a parallel of that question in the lab and uke and investigated very carefully and you might come up with an answer. so i was still bot
and i used to argue with the nurses. i used to say why do we do it in a different way. why don't we take it slower, take two hours but don't have this real terrible tearing. i didn't say this calm way of course. [laughter] >> i would try to convince them to do this, and the nurses told me to think. they told the first of all, that they were right. that they had the right model of the patient if they knew what would cause me less pain. and the second thing they told is the word patient...
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tell us what you found out and what ground you uncovered? >> i think those comments are very striking, because what's remarkable is how strongly people still feel about chappaquidick and how much i think it's remained a real topic of conversation. you know, there's literary dozens of books that have been written just about chappaquidick, so i just wanted to start out and go to the globe archive, it's a remarkable resource, hundreds of stories about the time, the place that he's events happened. >> you don't hold anything back in that. >> of course, one of the knocks against "the globe" which is interesting, an association with a liberal paper and a liberal senator which is the globe has been his present and protector for many years, you don't hold anything back. fact of the matter is, what were this to happen today or to any other candidate, he wouldn't be in the senate very much longer? >> i think that's probably very much true. so it really goes to the different time that it was then. but i was really surprised to find how many people ther
tell us what you found out and what ground you uncovered? >> i think those comments are very striking, because what's remarkable is how strongly people still feel about chappaquidick and how much i think it's remained a real topic of conversation. you know, there's literary dozens of books that have been written just about chappaquidick, so i just wanted to start out and go to the globe archive, it's a remarkable resource, hundreds of stories about the time, the place that he's events...
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begin my book talks with the salutation fellow workers and friends by we is something i do not get used very often but what i like almost as much. fellow vermonters greetings. i come not from london but from gil heard vt. sonat very far away. because i went to begin with a literally a footnote from page 66 of my book why biography is difficult. a small illustration why this book that i started in 1991 is coming out now. 18 years later. in 1927 stone was eight reporter in new jersey the drop in philadelphia and his family owned a dry goods store which is a fairly common thing board use in small towns. all of these towns had wondered to do is there were running the dry goods store the feinstein family they had a dry goods store there was eight storer partly because they were latency they were slightly figures of fun on the feinstein family day wed order a packet of needles although they were only three blocks away sell one day one day she t into a conversation she could not get him to take his nose out of his book eventually they got into a conversation she said you should come to our hou
begin my book talks with the salutation fellow workers and friends by we is something i do not get used very often but what i like almost as much. fellow vermonters greetings. i come not from london but from gil heard vt. sonat very far away. because i went to begin with a literally a footnote from page 66 of my book why biography is difficult. a small illustration why this book that i started in 1991 is coming out now. 18 years later. in 1927 stone was eight reporter in new jersey the drop in...
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that's what really worries us. another way of saying this is the problem we're trying to address is not the pblem of generating knowledge and science which you know given adequate funding we kw how to do pretty well. we have a good scientific establishment. but rather than the problem of translating science into different spears and context. and such translati is a critical problem today. not just becau of the new generation of science policy coming down the pipe, and i don't know if anyone heard me, but we were talking about aboutgeoengineering. so new issues coming out. but also knowledge translation, ienceranslation is critical because we live in a time where science journalist are vanishing from the old media. it's not at all clear who going to be there to take their place in order to bring science to the broad public, not that they always succeeded in doing that before. but nevertheless, they were better positionedn past decades than they are now. in ts context when the other science translator are having trou
that's what really worries us. another way of saying this is the problem we're trying to address is not the pblem of generating knowledge and science which you know given adequate funding we kw how to do pretty well. we have a good scientific establishment. but rather than the problem of translating science into different spears and context. and such translati is a critical problem today. not just becau of the new generation of science policy coming down the pipe, and i don't know if anyone...